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8.6 %In Nairobi, Kenya, 8.6% of 532 HIV-positive women and men were classified as having recent HIV infection.

KenyaVIH/sidaobserved 2018published 2020Journal of the International AIDS SocietyPubMeddocument of 4 observations

6.3 %The mean oocyst prevalence on feeding at baseline was 6.3% for DMFA.

Kenyapaludismepublished 2025Malaria journalPubMeddocument of 6 observations

68 %HHV-8 was detected at least once in 27 out of 40 HHV-8 seropositive Kenyan women, representing 68%.

KenyaHHV-8published 2014Journal of medical virologyeurope_pmcdocument of 5 observations

1.94 hazard_ratioSevere anaemia was positively associated with postdischarge mortality (adjusted HR 1.94, 95% CI 1.11–3.40).

Kenyaanémieobserved 2010 to 2019published 2024BMJ global healtheurope_pmcdocument of 13 observations

16 %Overall HIV prevalence among 11,899 female sex workers in Nairobi was 16%.

KenyaVIH/sidaobserved 2014 to 2017published 2023Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)PubMeddocument of 5 observations

35.4 %Aflatoxin B1 was detected in 17 of 48 women living with HIV with undetectable HIV viral load (35.4%).

KenyaVIH/sidapublished 2025International journal of STD & AIDSPubMeddocument of 8 observations

1.1 EU/mLGeometric mean titres of IgG antibodies to the circumsporozoite antigen in infants were 1.1 (0.9 to 1.3) EU/mL at day 0.

Kenyapaludismepublished 2023Wellcome open researcheurope_pmcdocument of 3 observations

1,066 youthOf 1066 youth with HIV enrolled between November 1, 2019, and March 18, 2020, 578 (54%) were in intervention sites and 488 (46%) were in control sites.

KenyaVIH/sidaobserved November 1, 2019 to March 18, 2020published 2022The lancet. HIVPubMed

23 countiesOver the period 2013–2015, of Kenya's 47 counties, 23 had an average Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence among children aged 2–10 years (PfPR 2-10) of ≥ 30%.

Kenyapaludismeobserved 2013-2015published 2018Malaria journaleurope_pmcdocument of 2 observations

27.6 per_100_person-yearsAmong high-risk Kenyan women younger than 25 years, the incidence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection was 27.6 per 100 person-years between August 2006 and December 2010.

KenyaChlamydia trachomatisobserved August 2006 to December 2010published 2013Sexually transmitted diseaseseurope_pmcdocument of 4 observations

0.22 odds_ratioAfter adjustment for time on ART, there was no difference in the detection of cervical HIV-1 RNA before versus during GUD (adjusted OR 0.22, 95% CI 0.04 to 1.23).

Kenyagenital ulcer disease (GUD) · VIH/sidapublished 2011Sexually transmitted infectionseurope_pmcdocument of 4 observationsDOI 10.1136/sti.2010.045369

5 samplesGenotype F40 and F41 coinfections were observed in five samples.

KenyaHAdV-F40 · HAdV-F41 · Human adenoviruses type Fobserved 2013 and 2022published 2022Genomic epidemiology of Human Adenovirus F40 and F41 in Coastal Kenya: A retrospective hoseurope_pmcdocument of 6 observationsDOI 10.1101/2022.10.21.22281250

36 cases36 women had GUD episodes after ART initiation.

Kenyagenital ulcer disease (GUD)published 2011Sexually transmitted infectionseurope_pmcdocument of 4 observationsDOI 10.1136/sti.2010.045369

1,340 casesAmong 1,735 undifferentiated fever cases, blood was collected from 1,340 (77.2%).

Kenyaundifferentiated feverobserved June 2017 to March 2019published 2024PloS onePubMeddocument of 13 observations

100 %The K65 wild-type allele was detected in three recrudescent infections (100%) identified from the AL treated samples.

Kenyapaludismepublished 2023Malaria journalPubMeddocument of 5 observations

65 %Among 593 patients with suspected new HIV-related Kaposi sarcoma in Uganda and Kenya, 171 were ineligible for rapid case ascertainment, mainly because biopsy failed to confirm KS (65%) or KS was not new (30%).

KenyaHIV-related Kaposi sarcomapublished 2021Cancer epidemiologyPubMeddocument of 7 observations

1.5 foldSTI prevalence was 1.5-fold higher among males than among females among sexually active participants aged 13+ years in Siaya County, western Kenya.

KenyaSTIspublished 2024International journal of STD & AIDSPubMeddocument of 6 observations

3.1 %The annual prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) or Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) among 2665 participants tested was 3.1% at baseline.

KenyaChlamydia trachomatisobserved baselinepublished 2026International journal of STD & AIDSPubMeddocument of 4 observations

38.1 %Low grade intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) was the most predominant cytological grade across cases and controls with a prevalence of 32 (38.1%).

Kenyalow grade intraepithelial lesionpublished 2020The Pan African medical journalPubMeddocument of 5 observations

28.6 %Among 213 children, 28.6% had CFP-10/ESAT-6-specific CD4 and/or CD8 responses through 24 months.

Kenyatuberculosepublished 2026The Journal of infectious diseasesPubMeddocument of 4 observations

11 casesOver the course of the study, 11 orphaned children acquired HIV.

KenyaVIH/sidapublished 2023The Journal of pediatricsPubMeddocument of 7 observations

1.08 daysThe mean time from sample collection to maternal notification was 1.08 days.

KenyaVIH/sidapublished 2020PloS onePubMeddocument of 13 observations

8.2 per_1000_person_yearsThe tuberculosis incidence rate among children living with HIV aged <15 years who initiated but did not complete isoniazid preventive therapy was 8.2 per 1000 person years by 24 months after IPT screening.

Kenyatuberculoseobserved by 24 months after IPT screeningpublished 2022Journal of the International AIDS SocietyPubMeddocument of 7 observations

1.29 risk_ratioMissing work to attend screening was significantly associated with higher treatment uptake after testing high-risk HPV-positive (risk ratio 1.29, 95% CI 1.10–1.52).

Kenyahigh-risk HPVpublished 2022JMIR public health and surveillancePubMeddocument of 8 observations

82.4 %Affordability was cited as a dimension of water insecurity by 82.4% of participants.

KenyaVIH/sidapublished 2026Journal of water and healtheurope_pmcdocument of 11 observations